Friday, 5 May 2017

Weekend reading and viewing: 6 - 7 May 2017

On the 2nd of May, 2016, my beautiful friend, Annie Love, lost her son, Nicholas. He was just four years old. A mere baby – and the baby of the family. Just a little guy but in his wake, a gaping hole. And all I could think was, how will Annie keep from falling in? ... My limited experience of loss and grief tells me that this space will never be filled. It can’t be. You learn to live around the space ...

In a world where science is getting dangerously close in allowing people to play the role of natural selection, this three-part series will address why Down syndrome is vital in enriching our society… now and in the future.

In the first episode we go to America to meet Stephanie Thompson, the head of the National Down Syndrome Adoption Network who finds families desperate to give babies with Down syndrome a home. We also look at her personal experience in having a son with Down syndrome, who’s been in care for the last decade ...